I'm supposed to be discussing ROBOT CHICKEN'S ATM CHRISTMAS SPECIAL with producer Matthew Senreich and writer Zeb Wells, but the topic of conversation has abruptly shifted to an entirely different holiday special. One of the STAR WARS variety.

"Have we ever found anyone that has actually sat through the entire STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL?" asks Wells. "We've tried here at ROBOT CHICKEN. We've gotten parties together and tried, but we can never quite make it all the way through."

ROBOT CHICKEN'S ATM CHRISTMAS SPECIAL may not feature Boba Fett, but it does have Larry Hama, who, to my mind, is far preferable to some armored goofball who gets swallowed by a vagina in the middle of the desert. The comic-book-writing legend is just one of many guests on what's become an annual highlight of ROBOT CHICKEN's season. There's also Seth MacFarlane, Elizabeth Banks, Henry Winkler and Michaela Watkins. It airs at midnight on Sunday, December 16th, and judging from the merriment in this exclusive clip, it could be their funniest Christmas special yet.

Other than Santa bombing North America with gift-wrapped destruction, what else can you expect from this year's special? Well, Jason Bourne turns up, as does Jim Carrey's Grinch, which promises to be a deeply un-fond tribute to Ron Howard's Christmas non-classic. But it's all about the Hama really. And while Hama's comic book credits are varied, for ROBOT CHICKEN's Seth Green, it's all about G.I. JOE.

Wolverine.was a douche. Always.
Talks about killing but never kills
Says he is hard but crys all the time
Cant get his own chick so he trys to wrangle in on his buddys fiance
He acts like hes a badass in the comics but gets taken out w ease by spidey, hell even the punisher
In the movies all his chick friends die, because he's a pussy
Gets beat up by a chick in x2
Not man enough to take advantage of rouge but to weasly to reduff her

Of something kinda funny being over done and the same jokes being over used! I can't remember a funny episode since the first season. Hopefully Adult Swim will get smart and drop some of their worst shows like this and I hope they cancel That stupid looking Star Wars Detours crap before it comes out! Someone fire Seth Green that little douche hasn't been funny since the 90's

Even though Community's Christmas special was a throwback to the classic claymation Christmas specials of our childhood, other shows are now wishing they had thought of it, especially Robot Chicken with is essentially a stop motion animation show and they didn't have the brainpower to think of it first. Even Russell Peters's recent Christmas special had a claymation episode.
You have to be a Community fan to get a lot of the humour in their Christmas episode, but if you are, that episode is something you can pop into the DVD/blu-ray player every holiday season if you're like me.

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! The GIJoe comic was AMAZING back in the day. So much better than it had any right to be, given the cartoon it was based on. If the makers of the GIJoe movies would just take a few pages out of Hama's books, it could be sooooo good.

I'll admit seasons three and four were pretty stingy with the funny, but I think they've been back on an upswing. Season 5 was solidly hilarious, and with the exception of last week's episode, the first half of Season 6 has been excellent.
With that in mind, it's a 10 minute series (sans ads), and they're not gonna parody every pop culture property you love in every episode. God knows I could do without the GI Joe skits (which have been numerous the past 2 years).
Bottom line...they may never live up to Season 1 again, but there's still a lot to love, and I think they've got another year or two left in them before the well is completely dry.

Community did a parody of 70s claymation X-Mas specials, and Robot Chicken uses stop motion, so now that Community did claymation, Robot Chicken, a show completely unrelated in format, tone, and content, wishes it also did a claymation episode?